Month: March 2014

About three weeks ago, I was lucky enough to attend Conf.KDE.In at the DA-IICT in Ghandinagar, India. Thank you, KDE e.V. for making this possible.
Much has already been said about the excellent conference in the dot article and personalreports from fellow KDE hackers so I will skip repeating how eager and engaged the students were, how the event was impeccably organized, and even how good the food was.

What I want to talk about instead is something else: The evolution of our community. Continue Reading →

Back in 2012, Facebook and Stanford University introduced their “Open Academy” program. The aim was and still is simple: Give University students an opportunity to work on real open source projects in exchange for University credit – and a ton of valuable experience.
This year, KDE has joined as a mentoring organization with a total of 11 students assigned to work on 3 different projects. One of those projects is Simon’s upcoming natural language dialog manager: A system building on the current “Dialog” plugin to enable the creation of advanced spoken dialogs like the ones made popular by Apple’s Siri. Continue Reading →